Poll, 82% of republicans approving of what the president is doing. with all do respect, and affection for you two, where does the evidence that the republican voters are with your kind of republicanism as opposed to president trump s? yeah, well trump s approval rating is high among republicans because he s a republican president. republicans want to win. they re used to supporting that party label. they do see this opportunity of quote/unquote unified government, and they want to get some of the things passed that they support like tax reform. they wanted to repeal obamacare. some of these types of things. if they re presented an alternative, i m not convinced that the entire republican voting base is behind trump s populist nationalism which is of course what trump rode to the white house. a lot of polls that break down the caucus that are free marketers. there s another percentage that are the younger kind of enterprising type that care about inclusion. they want free enterprise,
His career, he believes chaos benefits him nap he is strengthened when there is unease around him. and when lines are uncertain and positions are uncertain. somethingals larger. steve bannon and reince priebus were supposed to represent the book ends marrying with a populist nationalism that bannon embodied and the administration really struggled i think to make that balance. you see the tension on all sorts of issues like foreign policy, trade. above all i think, what you ve seen over the first six months, the president abandoning his, one of his core promises to his blue collar and older lower income white base he would defend the entitlement programs which many rely. saw his numbers decline among older and blue collar whites after this health care fight, went exactly in the opposite direction for six months. it s no coincidence, only after that that we have seen the sharp turn to the right on all of these cultural and racial issues starting with banning
Already someone that s been accused, that jared kushner revenged kroo ed chris christie. steve bannon is not out for vengeance, but he has an ideology, something that he believes in, which is what donald trump ran on, this idea on an anti-establishment, populist nationalism. and will steve bannon still have that agenda whether he s working for donald trump or not? of course he will. go ahead. i think the thing here is, if steve has moved out and donald trump veers to the center and abandoning the promises that he made to the base that got him ele elected, to the base that carried him through the primary, steve will highlight that every dma t day in the pages of breitbart.
Illustrated as a child? just think how much our world has been turned upside down, that we are now asking why hasn t the president responded to a comedy show, a late night comedy show as opposed to, can you believe the president of the united states, the leader of the free world, is in a twitter war with lorne michaels and the cast of hamilton and meryl streep? that is how our expectations have been shifted. i m sure we will hear on this eventually. but the steve bannon thing is important because bannon does have there is an overriding vision. as he said to the washington post last week, he said we are building a new political order. they believe they are fish suring the parties along new lines, along new issues that are centered on this idea of kind of a populist nationalism similar to what we see emerging among far right parties in europe to the uk party in great britain where donald trump has been very close to nigel farage, and where bannon himself has said in a
Illegals taking all of the people from wrherever they come from, are and nobody really knows where they come from. well, it s striking to me, and it could be a slip of the tongue, but they re refugees. he uses the term illegals as if he is he basically said these are all scary foreigners that were not doing enough to tell where they come from or to keep enough of them out, and i think his world view also has been very consistent in this sort of populist nationalism that he espouses which he sees of a piece with the brexit movement in the u.k. and of a piece with a lot of the nationalist movements across europe that oppose, you know, the centralization of power in the e.u., that oppose alliances like nato, as taking away countries national sovereignty.